An independent publisher is set to become Ireland’s first exclusively digital publisher on Leap day (February 29th) when it debuts.

Tirgearr Publishing recently revealed it was doing away with literary agents to give authors the opportunity to submit their work without the need for a middle-man.

Based in Kildare, the publisher will received unsolicited manuscripts between March 1st and 10th, with a specific focus on adult genre fiction.

Tirgearr is accepting manuscripts from a wide scope of word counts, from short stories for a suggested retail price (srp) of $1.99, to novels of more than 95,000 words for an srp upwards of $4.99.

A statement from the publisher suggested it was preparing to capitalise on the “rapidly growing interest in digital books, fuelled by the popularity for affordable reading devices”.

Since the beginning of 2012, Tirgearr has published five titles by award-winning authors, including Man City by C Margery Kempe and The Trouble with French Kisses by Kristi Ahlers.

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